Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Pyramids 3D app lets you
fly across the Giza plateau with 360° views of The Great Pyramid, The
Sphinx and the rest of the ancient complex. It gives aspiring explorers
and armchair travellers an equally fulfilling way to sample one of the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. But it’s once you enter the tombs
that the app really comes into its own.

Every inch of the network of passages has been rendered from real
photographs; even the tunnels closed to real visitors are included.
There’s a small HUD and flashlight indicator to show your direction of
travel. Scroll around with one finger and tap to move forward down the
passages. You begin to feel like a real explorer, but the somewhat
creepy soundtrack is a little off putting. These are peaceful places
where the pharaohs ascended to the gods, after all, not scenes from The
Mummy!
Read review on www.tapmag.co.ukWatch the video...

About Me

I am a freelance archaeologist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland specializing in the medieval period. I have worked as a field archaeologist for the Department of Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Museum of London. I have been involved in continuing education for many years and have taught for the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the Universities of London, Essex, Ulster, and the London College of the University of Notre Dame, and I was the Archaeological Consultant for Southwark Cathedral. I am the author of and tutor for an OUDCE online course on the Vikings, and the Programme Director and Academic Director for the Oxford Experience Summer School.